huntingtonlibrary: As soon as I opened the book, however, I immediately realized that I held in my h
huntingtonlibrary:As soon as I opened the book, however, I immediately realized that I held in my hands not merely the same edition we know Newton owned, but the very copy he owned.Today on VERSO, Huntington researcher and historian of science Stephen Snobelen recounts the tale of discovering that a book he was studying here at The Huntington had been dog-eared by none other than Isaac Newton himself, a fact no one associated with the book—including The Huntington—had realized in decades.Read “Newton’s Lost Copy of Mede, Revealed.”caption: The outside fold of a dog-ear marking Justin Martyr’s testimonies about the Millennium in Newton’s copy of Joseph Mede’s Works (1672). The accumulated dirt on the fold is evidence that Newton kept the dog-ear down for many years. The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. -- source link
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